The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7389 p232
25 February 2006

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· Oxygen supplies (5)
· Community pharmacy
· Vitamin D
· Care homes
· Boots/UniChem merger
· Locum pharmacy
· Assisted dying
· Methadone
· Statins
· CPD
· Criminal convictions
· Overseas pharmacists
· National boards

Letters to the Editor

Assisted dying

Respect patients’ rights

From Mr K. H. Seston, MRPharmS

How appropriate that Susan Boorman’s letter evangelising her Christian viewpoint (PJ, 11 February, p160) should appear in the same issue as an “Onlooker” piece on fundamentalism and fanaticism (p182). In all that I do as a pharmacist I aim to respect the wishes of the patient, even though I may not agree with them, because I believe that we are all, as individuals, best placed to make informed decisions about our own life (or the ending of it). Whatever our individual religious beliefs we should respect the rights of patients to hold an alternative view and appropriately support their wishes. Too many in this world are already attempting to impose their views on others.

Keith Seston
Havant, Hampshire

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